What a finish! Carl Edwards threw a big scare into Jimmie Johnson the final corner, and made the day for 100,000 fans at Kansas Speedway. Johnson won and took the Sprint Cup championship points lead, but, man, did Edwards give him a thrill!
Jimmie Johnson wins the NASCAR championship by 69 points over Carl Edwards. Johnson slogs home 15th; Edwards wins in a romp. And the Winston-Salem Journal calls it quits in NASCAR, after covering the sport since 1949.
Tim Brewer, Richard Childress' original crew chief, back when Childress had only a two-man team -- him and Brewer -- is now ABC/ESPN's NASCAR tech boss: when Kyle Busch's car breaks, Brewer shows viewers just why.
So can Carl Edwards cut Jimmie Johnson's 183-point lead down to size and get back in the NASCAR championship hunt? This is a Jack Roush track, and Edwards is Roush's top man. But Jimmie beat Matt Kenseth here last fall and Jimmie finished second here in the spring -- to Carl Edwards...just like last week at Atlanta.
NFL scouts visit Winston-Salem to see this past year's WFU players demonstrate their ability through workouts and drills. Listen to players, including Josh Gattis and John Abbate, on their performance and thoughts of the upcoming NFL Draft.
If Ricky Stenhouse can rattle Scott Speed's cage so dramatically in last weekend's ARCA title finale, imagine what NASCAR Cup drivers will do to aggravate Red Bull's ex-F1 driver in his Sprint Cup debut at Martinsville this weekend.
Too many questions, not enough answers about this DEI-Ganassi merger. Is Chip Ganassi in effect buying DEI? If so, why should General Motors add four more Cup teams to its already jammed NASCAR roster?
Jeff Gordon again goes for that first win of the season, and Martinsville is usually a good track for him, if he can get around teammate Jimmie Johnson. But the GM-Chrysler merger has raised speculation that the future of Dodge teams: Penske to Ford perhaps?
Jimmie Johnson can coast home to the NASCAR title from here. So the only questions are: which Jack Roush driver will win the Ford 400....and who is buying North Wilkesboro Speedway. The last day of the 10-month Sprint Cup season is finally here!
JPM wins the pole at Kansas...and then loses it...did NASCAR blow it in prequalifying inspection? Hey, and don't count Kyle Busch out of this title chase just yet.
Two dozen promising young drivers get to strut their stuff here at South Boston Speedway this week in NASCAR's annual drive-for-diversity tryouts for racing scholarships for the 2009 season.
Carl Edwards rips the Texas 500 field...and then has to win on an odd gas mileage gamble...while Jimmie Johnson struggles home 15th. So we've got a new title chase as the tour heads to Phoenix for Round Nine of the NASCAR championship chase.
Phoenix and Texas used to be the fall tracks that set up the championship endgame, but this season, with this fincky new race car, Kansas Speedway could well be the track that tells the championship tale.